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A community for funny phonetic misspellings of words or phrases. Bonus points if this misspelling comprises actual words, like this community’s namesake: Bon appétit —> Bone apple tea
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Really interesting. Etymonline dates scape (v) to the early 13th century. So it was used as an alternate form of 'escape' for a couple of hundred years before Tyndale. Not such a misuse in the OP after all.
But it's still apostrophically terrible.